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I've bought a new steel acoustic guitar (Epiphone DR-100) and I want to add cleaner and softer songs to my repertoire. My current list consists of these songs:

List

  • Nothing Else Matters (Metallica)
  • Mama Said (Metallica)
  • Fade to Black (Metallica)
  • One (Metallica)
  • To Live Is to Die (Metallica)
  • A Tout le Monde (Megadeth)
  • Foreclosure of a Dream (Megadeth)
  • Kill the Pain (Accept)
  • Beyond the Realms of Dead (Judas Priest)
  • Angel (Judas Priest)
  • Dreamer Deceiver (Judas Priest)
  • Wasting Love (Iron Maiden)
  • Tears of a Dragon (Bruce Dickinson)
  • Children of the Sea (Black Sabbath)
  • Solitude (Black Sabbath)
  • Planet Caravan (Black Sabbath)
  • Goodbye to Romance (Black Sabbath)
  • Mama I'm Coming Home (Black Sabbath)
  • This Love (Pantera)
  • Suicide Note Pt. I (Pantera)
  • Voice of the Soul (Death)
  • Is This Love (Whitesnake)
  • Under the Bridge (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

I know some of these songs are not fully clean but they work as an acoustic songs. I'm waiting for your inputs comrades!

Edit: Here are some additions from replies:

ListCourtesy of @myrmidex@belgae.social

  • Come as You are (Nirvana)
  • Something in the Way (Nirvana)
  • All Apologies (Nirvana)
  • Nutshell (Alice in Chains)
  • Down in a Hole (Alice in Chains)
  • Rotten Apple (Alice in Chains)

Courtesy of @Orion@lemmygrad.ml

  • The Bard's Song (Blind Guardian)
  • Lord of the Rings (Blind Guardian)

Courtesy of @Graphite2@hexbear.net

  • The Silent Man (Dream Theater)

Courtesy of @ashenone@lemmy.ml

  • The Battle of Evermore (Led Zeppelin)
  • Stairway to Heaven (Led Zeppelin)
  • Caught Up (The Fall of Troy)
  • Doornails (NOFX)
  • California Waiting (Kings of Leon)
  • My Curse (Killswitch Engage)
  • Swing Life Away (Rise Against)
  • Story of My Life, and Ball and Chain (Social Distortion)

Edit 2: Electric Boogaloo: Sorry for the late edit comrades! I put the lists in spoiler to avoid cluttering.

ListCourtesy of @Deer_Tito@lemmygrad.ml

  • Goodnight (Dry Kill Logic)
  • Kingdom of the Blind (Dry Kill Logic)
  • Come Clarity (In Flames)
  • Acoustic Medley (In Flames)
  • Dawn of a New Day (In Flames)
  • Pallar Anders Visa (In Flames)
  • Close Yet Far (CKY)

Courtesy of @big_spoon@lemmygrad.ml

  • The Man Who Sold the World (Nirvana)

Courtesy of @narr1@lemmygrad.ml

  • Benighted (Opeth)
  • Face of Melinda (Opeth)
  • Windowpane (Opeth)
  • The Unforgiven (Metallica)
  • The Unforgiven II (Metallica)

Courtesy of @sexywheat@hexbear.net@

  • Falling Home (Pain of Salvation)

Courtesy of @BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net

  • Hurt (Nine Inch Nails/Johnny Cash)

Courtesy of @Feed_el_Castro@hexbear.net

  • Found (the Unexpected Flaw of Searching) (Riverside)
  • I Believe (Riverside)
  • Coda (Riverside)
  • Тёмная Hочь (USSR WW2 Song)
  • Life Eternal (Ghost)
  • He Is (Ghost)
  • Trains (Porcupine Tree)
  • Undertow (Pain of Salvation)
  • Ashes (Pain of Salvation)

Courtesy of @GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml

  • Patience (Guns & Roses)
  • Every Rose has its Thorn (Poison)
  • Ballad of Jayne (LA Guns)
  • Love Song (Tesla)
  • More Than Words (Extreme)

Courtesy of @Maeve@kbin.earth

  • Silent Lucidity (Queensryche)

Courtesy of @bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml

  • To Bid Farewell (Opeth)

Courtesy of @chinawatcherwatcher@lemmygrad.ml

  • Gerudo Valley Theme (Koji Kondo)
  • Classical Gas (Mason Williams)

Courtesy of @wuphysics87@lemmy.ml

  • Diamonds and Rust (Judas Priest/Joan Baez)
  • Victim of Change (Judas Priest)
  • The Game (Motorhead)
  • Ace of Spades (Motorhead)
  • Eat the Rich (Motorhead)

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[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Patience - Guns & Roses
Every Rose has its Thorn - Poison.
Ballad of Jayne - LA Guns.
Love Song - Tesla.
More Than Words - Extreme

[–] Krinkil2705@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 days ago

Nice glam list comrade!

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ain't it a shame...

The whole list is profoundly evocative, for me.

Especially Ballad of Jayne. Barely out of school, wilding out, lost three I deeply loved in the space of a year, either side of the release date, a best friend, a lover, and a beloved relative that tore my heart from my chest.

Saw LA Guns as an opening act somewhere around the general time frame.

And still I love that song the most. I also am particularly fond of Queensryche's Silent Lucidity, for the same reasons.

Thank you for the memory of them. I've been so blessed to know good people.

[–] GreatSquare@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Saw LA Guns as an opening act somewhere around the general time frame.

Wow.

I didn't really listen to them until much later on. The rise of YouTube, Spotify etc let me go back to find LA Guns and Tesla.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 4 days ago

Concert tickets were gen ad, back then, and around $20-25, too.